Catalog subscription from VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension fails

When a VMware Cloud Director user subscribes to a catalog from VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension, a sync task is automatically created and the task fails.

Problem

The error in the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension log is: FixedLengthOverflowException: null.

Cause

The VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension connection to the storage platform uses a middleware for data compression.

Solution

• Turn off the data compression.
• Exclude the impact of the data compression on the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension side.

  # ose args set -k s3.client.use.gzip -v false
  # ose service restart